{"id":5323,"date":"2018-12-10T10:11:40","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T15:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=5323"},"modified":"2018-12-10T16:41:47","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T21:41:47","slug":"i-grew-up-catholic-why-is-the-catholic-church-so-anti-female","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/12\/10\/i-grew-up-catholic-why-is-the-catholic-church-so-anti-female\/","title":{"rendered":"I grew up Catholic; why is the Catholic Church so anti-female?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5302\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5302\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/aw121018-16.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5302\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/aw121018-16-300x291.jpg\" alt=\"I grew up Catholic; why is the Catholic Church so anti-female?\" width=\"300\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/aw121018-16-300x291.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/aw121018-16.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5302\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I grew up Catholic; why is the Catholic Church so anti-female?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Catholic Church is committed to traditions. This is both a strength and a weakness. However, any institution as old as the Church that places such a high importance on tradition is going to have some vestiges of old (and unfair) power structures in place. It was (and to a large extent remains) the case that men held most positions of power in all areas of life throughout history &#8211; whether that was the church, politics (ignoring the inseparability of the two for a second), on down to the individual household.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Catholic Church is committed to traditions. This is both a strength and a weakness. However, any institution as old as the Church that places such a high importance on tradition is going to have some vestiges of old (and unfair) power structures in place. It was (and to a large extent remains) the case &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/12\/10\/i-grew-up-catholic-why-is-the-catholic-church-so-anti-female\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I grew up Catholic; why is the Catholic Church so anti-female?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-questions","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5323"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5364,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5323\/revisions\/5364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}